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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children sometimes like the noise of lambs.
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